Geno's Roaches
...On youth's restless green puff
I rode a greyhound bus southbound.
Everything I owned stuffed into one duffel bag.
Forty eight hours on highway x.
It was getting dark so I settled for the first ...
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Categories:
duffel bag, adventure, travel, youth,
Form: Free verse
Turning Up Her Imagination
...keep the music sorrowfully low,
so big daddy doesn’t hear.
the shadowy figures, surrender
and whisper in your ear.
the psychedelic colors flow
like the sea foam beat.
Angie, your c...
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Categories:
duffel bag, dark,
Form: Rhyme
A Pound of Flesh
...A man of unquestioned probity in his community, stumbles upon
A hidden duffel bag in the woods while camping with his family
He pulls it out of the dirt and zips it open. The duffel bag
Is stuffe...
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Categories:
duffel bag, corruption, dark, imagery, money,
Form: Haibun
Ballad For a Homeless Woman
...Each day, she wallows in unspeakable despair
Her hunger is unslakable
There's misery in her downcast eyes
Poor woman, a have-not i...
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Categories:
duffel bag, girl, humanity, imagery, poverty,
Form: Tristich
Expendable For a Cause
...A young man carrying a green duffel bag
over his shoulder shifts when he walks.
Off to war for our country and flag.
No military knowledge with little talk.
Enemy troops marched acr...
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Categories:
duffel bag, bereavement, soldier, war,
Form: Quatrain
Soldier
...As I laced up my tennis shoes
I hurried to meet up with you
and ran to find you getting off the bus
And when I saw you standing there
in uniform so debonair
I was hoping everyone would notice us...
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Categories:
duffel bag, war,
Form: Ballad
Red, White, and Blue
...The colors of our flag
Do not stand for freedom
Anymore.
Red shall not be to honor the blood spilled by our troops
But rather the blood
Spilled by those who wake up every day in fear
Of half...
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Categories:
duffel bag, peace, political,
Form: Free verse
Mooselick
...Have you seen Ms.Cynthia Morris' moose
Who has eaten Ms. Kim Patricia’s goose?
She laid a golden egg
In my red duffel bag
While I was running for the loo bowels loose
(Nonsense/Li...
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Categories:
duffel bag, nonsense,
Form: Limerick
Anna My Daughter
...Anna fell in love with a Pterodactyl
They pecked and petted in a reflex tactile
She laid a big egg
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Categories:
duffel bag, nonsense,
Form: Limerick
Memories Mirrored
...Memories Mirrored
by Odin Roark
A Boy Scout essential
The polished metal card mirror
The unbreakable monitor
Made to master Morse code
Used to measure wanna-be whiskers
And such
S...
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Categories:
duffel bag, war,
Form: Free verse
An Amulet of Peace
...An amulet of peace hung ‘round my neck,
An AR16 rifle in my hands….
Seemed like such a paradox,
In the paddies and jungles of Vietnam.
An amulet of peace hung ‘round my neck,
A man’s life was in my ...
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Categories:
duffel bag, adventure, america, angst, change,
Form: Rhyme
A Great Night Out
...It was now September there was a smell of autumn in the air autumn fires burned,
On a bleak night lying on a cold wet floor the night chilled all that were out,
The naked earth was cold hard, in the ...
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Categories:
duffel bag, depression, happy, night, autumn,
Form: Prose Poetry
He Was My Sun
...He was my sun, my one and only son,
attired as a cowboy for the day.
And so I handed him a little gun
of fastened random sticks, for him to shoot and play.
Attired as a cowboy for the day
he ...
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Categories:
duffel bag, war,
Form: Pantoum
Ptsd
...our Jeeps pulled into hanger four as we saluted our first Sgt my thoughts were racing again as home became a vivid battle zone of raw emotions several caskets lined the entrance way inside of the cha...
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Categories:
duffel bag, adventure,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
Combat
...I remember that day and never looking back
I said goodbye to my family and grabbed my duffel bag
Im off to be a hero just like my grandfather and my dad
Im going to fight for America Im going to beco...
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Categories:
duffel bag, america, anger, bereavement, betrayal,
Form: I do not know?
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